Direct air capture of CO2: the economics?
Direct Air Capture of CO2 (DAC) will cost around c$200/ton of CO2 abated, all in, and apples-to-apples with other technologies assessed by TSE. This data-file models out the economics of…
Market sizing: what if CO2 abatement costs are distributed like US income?
…DAC. Some buyers may be willing to pay a premium for DAC CO2 removal credits over reforestation removal credits due to higher perceived quality, especially around the dimension of CO2…
Industrial materials: thermodynamic efficiency?
…value chains (more below). https://thundersaidenergy.com/downloads/hydrogen-overview-and-conclusions/ Conclusion #5: still looking for magic bullets in CCS and DAC? If you are starting from a baseline of air, with 400ppm CO2 concentration (i.e.,…
Carbon capture and storage: research conclusions?
…DAC is only 140kWh/ton, and the world has simply not invented a process yet that is more than 5-10% thermodynamically efficient. We have modeled solutions from Carbon Engineering at c$300/ton…
Metal organic frameworks: what challenges and opportunities?
…CCS or DAC. Today’s CCS and DAC processes are only 5-10% efficient, compared to their therodynamic minimum energy, and we increasingly wonder whether AI engines can help to develop sorbents…
CO2 capture: a cost curve?
…place next on the cost curve and could each have GTpa scale. Power stations place next, at $60-100/ton. DAC is conceptually attractive, as the only carbon negative technology, but if…
Climeworks: direct air capture breakthrough?
…than, say, Carbon Engineering. The main innovation visible in Climeworks’ patents is a DAC plant with optimized air flow, passing CO2 through layers of fabric housing CO2-adsorbing materials. This is…
Omniscience: how will AI reshape the energy transition?
…by 3-5x (note here). But we think AI can likely double the utilization rates of grid infrastructure (pages 13-14). How will AI reshape CCS and DAC value chains? The thermodynamic…
Nature based solutions to climate change?
…long way below high cost technologies, such as DAC credits at $200-1,000/ton (how much do you have to hate nature, to pay $1,000/ton for a DAC credit rather than $50/ton…
CO2 concentrations in industrial exhaust streams?
…of magnitude). This is one of the challenges for DAC. Most promisingly, some CO2 is already purely concentrated (e.g., after pre-treating natural gas before LNG liquefaction; or after separating out…